The story of Coventry

by Mary Dormer Harris

[63] Ormerod, Cheshire, i. 10.

[64] Dugdale, Warw., ii. 1107. The incident is commemorated in a modern window in Tamworth church.

[65] Ormerod, i. 20-6. Dugdale, Warw., i. 137.

[66] Ormerod, i. 26.

[67] Thompson, Hist. Leicester, 42.

[68] Dugdale, Warw., i. 197.

[69] See Dormer Harris, Troughton Sketches, 24.

[70] Piers Ploughman, Passus v. l. 402. Sloth (a personification of one of the Seven Deadly Sins) says:—

"I can nought perfitly my pater-noster ...
But I can rymes of Robyn hood, and Randolf, erle of Chestre."

It is more likely this earl is meant than his grandfather Gernons.